| Butterflies Temporal range: Eocene-Recent, 45–0Ma | |
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| Charaxes brutus natalensis in Dar es Salaam,Tanzania | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Rhopalocera |
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A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the